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Comment by lionkor

7 hours ago

How did you verify that it wasn't bogus? Like, when it says "most of the time", or "commonly", or "always", how do you know that's accurate? How do those terms shape your thinking?

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crazygringo  6 hours ago

> when it says "most of the time", or "commonly", or "always", how do you know that's accurate?

Do you get those words a lot? If you're learning ray-tracing, it's math and code that either works or doesn't. There isn't a lot of "most of the time"?

Same with learning history. Events happened or they didn't. Economies grew at certain rates. Something that is factually "most of the time" is generally expressed as a frequency based on data.

  • lionkor  4 hours ago

    > Something that is factually "most of the time" is generally expressed as a frequency based on data.

    that is exactly my point. This is purely anecdotal, but LLMs keep pretenting there is data like that, so they use those words